Recent content by Sarni

High standards and winning mentality. They expect their players, coaches to be the best in class and are quick to replace them if they aren’t. We are the perfect opposite of them. We romanticize, lower our standards and fall in love with mediocrity.

Very bullish. As expected, he's probably been briefed of the new contract.

He's actually been pretty good in the league and prevented many goals. He's being bombarded with insane (unprecedented, hehe) amount of shots though.

He has not been let down by his players who did not try and threw him under the bus, and by his management who could not get him all the players he wanted and abused by the press on unprecedented levels like ETH has been though. ETH has been one of the most mistreated managers in history of...

Back in the 80s and even most of the 90s teams from smaller leagues could still be quite competitive against the big leagues. 1995-96 champions of England, Blackburn, finished bottom of the group which saw Legia Warsaw and Spartak Moscow go through to QFs (remember watching Legia as a kid, that...

Yeah typically the best teams win and they tend to also be the best or thereabouts domestically, but the name 'Champions League' is quite clearly a brand at this point, it doesn't indicate that each of the teams participating is actually a champion of their own country like it did at the...

It’s been quite a while since UEFA allowed 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed teams in, thought people would get used to this by now.

I would be wary of signing players from clubs like Leverkusen or Atalanta that seem more about system making team look much more than the sum of it parts rather than brilliant individuals making up a world class team. They’d mostly just get lost in disjointed team of ours. Also, kind of...

On top of his obvious coaching abilities I must also say I’m impressed with his laid back, casual style, with simple sweatshirt / long sleeve and sneakers. Elegant without being overdressed.

He looks like a tidy player but very inexperienced and not sure we should be spending £100m or so on a single player when we need to reshape our team so significantly.

We might not have enough time to prepare the bid, in which case you can’t blame us for losing out to Villa. The issue we quite often face is that we take time to prepare our bid, and always ensure they are meticulously crafted, handwritten on a high quality sheet of paper, while other teams just...

Fair enough.

It's not just in football, it's normal human behavior. If you see signs of your leader being weak/incompetent, you are bound to eventually start questioning their ability to do the job. Arguably it's even more difficult for athletes because they can't just go and find a different job, they are...

I think we just got used to mediocrity and accustomed to throwing 'patience' at everything. Be patient with players, they need time to gel, be patient with the manager, look how long it took Ferguson to make things right, be patient with owners, they need time to see what they are dealing with...

I am actually convinced he has some disciplinary issues, like being late or maybe wearing wrong clothes to team meetings, picking up phone during meeting or something, because that's usually how players get on the wrong side of ETH. I don't think he's amazing or anything, he hasn't really shown...